2011 Economics Seminar Series

The School of Economics Seminar Series are held on a weekly basis from 12:00pm to 1:30pm. Venues and seminar details will be emailed weekly. All are welcome to attend and a light lunch is provided. Details below on upcoming seminars. If you would like further details of any of the seminars please contact our Seminar Coordinators Dr Amnon Levy or Dr Zhiming Cheng Details of previous seminars are also available - please click here.

Spring Session Program 

Date/Topic	Speaker	Location
28 July 2011	Dr Peter Siminski	40.233
Topic	Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries
4 August 2011	A/Professor Charles Harvie	40A:G81
Topic	Access to Finance and SMEs: obstacles and policy implications
11 August 2011	Professor Thomas Pogge, Yale University and ANU	40A:G81
Topic	The Health Impact Fund: How to Make New Medicines Accessible to All
18 August 2011	Dr. Jason Lindo, University of Oregon, Eugene	40A:G81
Topic	Do Distractions Drive The Gender Gap in College Performance?
25 August 2011	A/Professor  Stefan Trueck, Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Macquarie University	40A:G81
Topic	The Dynamics of Returns on Renewable Energy Companies:  A State-Space Approach
31 August 2011	A/Professor David Goldbaum, UTS	40.131
Topic	Follow the Leader: Equilibrium Analysis of Conformity and Influence on a Social Network
8 September 2011	Dr. Jaai Parasnis, Monash University	40A:G81
Topic	Immigrant-Native Wage Inequality in Australia
15 September 2011	Cancelled
22 September 2011	Professor Lance Fisher, Macquarie University	40A:G81
Topic	Structural Cointegrated Models of US Consumption and Wealth
6 October 2011	Professor Russell Smyth, Head, Economics, Monash University	40A:G81
Topic	Children and Parental Health: Evidence from China
13 October 2011	Professor Robert Slonim, School of Economics-Economics Discipline, University of Sydney	40A:G81
Topic	Rewarding Altruism: A Natural Field Experiment
20 October 2011	Cancelled	40A:G81
27 October 2011	Professor Adrian Pagan, UNSW	40A:G81
Topic	TBA

Autumn Session Programme

Date/Topic	Speaker	Location
03 March 2011	Professor Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Copenhagen Business School	40A G81
Topic	True Profit Shifting
10 March 2011	Professor Jakob Madsen, Monash University	40A:G81
Topic	The Great Demographic Transition and Growth in Industrialised Countries since 1870
17 March 2011	Dr Sasan Bakhtiari, University of New South Wales	40A:G81
Topic	Size and Outsourcing: Theory and Evidence from Australian Manufacturing
24 March 2011	A/Professor Renuka Mahadevan, University of Queensland	40A:G81
Topic	Regional Differences Pose Challenges for Food Security Policy: Case Study of India
31 March 2011	No Seminar
07 April 2011	Dr Stephane Luchini, GREQAM	40A:G81
Topic	Preference Elicitation under Oath
14 April 2011	Recess Week
21 April 2011	Dr Maria Racionero, Australian National University	40A:G81
Topic	Tagging with leisure needs
28 April 2011	Professor Nancy Gallini, UBC	40A:G81
Topic	Competitive Price Coordination in Technology Sharing Agreements
05 May 2011	A/Professor Paul Pezanis Christou, Université Louis Pasteur, UNSW	40A:G81
Topic	Information quality (and behaviour) in multi-unit high-bid auctions
12 May 2011	Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Ying (Angela) Liu, University of Wollongong	40A:G81
Topic	Trends and determinants of emissions across the states of Australia 1998/99-2007/08
19 May 2011	Dr Debdulal Mallick, Deakin University	40A:G81
Topic	The Substitution Elasticity, Growth Theory, and the Low Pass Filter Panel Model
26 May 2011	No Seminar
02 June 2011	Associate Professor Arghya Ghosh (UNSW)	40A:G81
Topic	IPR Protection and Absorptive Capacity in North-South Trade
07 June 2011	Professor Jacek Krawczyk	40.131
Topic	Viable “Satisficing” Policies Versus The Taylor Rule In An Open Economy